Digital parking solutions make parking fairer and more secure for everyone in your community. The right platform will give residents fast parking access, keep out unauthorized vehicles if you want, and make it easier to find and discourage parking rule violations that negatively affect other people in your community.

These are just a few of the ways a digital parking platform can benefit your community’s residents and guests.

1. Fast Vehicle Validation for Residents

With a digital parking solution, resident vehicle validation is a breeze. Your community can use either smart parking permits or license plate recognition (LPR) for speedy and secure parking access. A system like Parking Boss can integrate with hardware like FlockSafety’s solar-powered LPR cameras to tie smart vehicle permits or license plate numbers to hassle-free parking gate access.

2. Easy Self-Service Guest Parking

Guests don’t need to waste your community staff’s time or deal with an unreliable machine to get a parking permit. They can do it themselves in seconds at any time of day, even without downloading an app (depending on the solution). A system like Parking Boss lets you welcome them with easy guest parking registration for hourly, daily, or nightly parking access that works on any modern smartphone or web browser.

3. Better Security

Tools like Parking Boss can use auto intelligence and an LPR camera system to immediately identify vehicles on your property, even without manual checking. You can spot unauthorized cars right away. Our system is map-based, so your team knows exactly where to look for offending vehicles.

4. Fairer Enforcement 

Enforcing your community’s parking rules is much easier with a digital solution. A good tool will keep track of vehicles’ rule violation histories and suspected fraud so you can catch repeat offenders quickly. Our system also includes smart warning stickers you can use to let rule violators know they’ve been caught and what the consequences are.

5. Better Resident Space Assignments

Digital parking solutions can automatically assign residents to the best possible spots. With Parking Boss, you can filter by space type, like EV charging spots, ADA spots, or covered vs. uncovered spaces. 

6. Guaranteed Spaces

You can also use your digital system to catch people parking in spaces reserved for someone else. With that information, you can finally enforce your rules so that both residents and legitimate guests always have a place to park.

7. No Risk of Losing a Permit

It’s all too easy to misplace, damage, or make fake replicas of traditional physical permits. With digital parking permits, those problems are a thing of the past. You can tie parking privileges to a license plate or a weather-proof, tamper-resistant smart decal that automatically updates when someone loses their parking privileges. Residents don’t have to worry about losing a hang tag, and intruders can’t fake a permit. 

8. Automated Reminders

Want to give guests a gentle nudge when their parking access is about to expire? You can set your digital parking solution to send automatic text notifications or emails. Those reminders let guests know you’re watching for rule violations, help them avoid accidentally overstaying your welcome, and give them time to register for longer parking access if they need it.

9. Better EV Charging Management

Smart parking solutions can work together with other tools to help with EV-related parking challenges. For instance, Parking Boss can integrate with Pando Electric to give residents dedicated EV charging spaces and manage electric load distribution across stations.

Both residents and guests will love the convenience of a digital parking solution. If your community needs a safer, fairer, and more efficient parking system, the Parking Boss team would love to give you a demo of how our solution can help your community.